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The Parable of the Sower — affliction aimed straight at the word
Pastor Eddie explains how affliction and the word of God collide in the Parable of the Sower. When Jesus describes the seed that falls on stony ground, He names exactly what happens next: affliction rises up "for the word's sake," aimed at choking it out before it can take root. Two Gospel accounts anchor this teaching most clearly — Mark 4 and Luke 8 — because both name affliction and the devil in the same breath, working toward the same goal: keeping the word from bearing fruit.
Mark 4:15–17 — "And these are they by the way…
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